Artsnap, the trusted marketplace for art, with new and curated and affordable pieces released weekly, has a selection of works that feature the dazzling film stars of a bygone era. Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and Lola Albright come to the fore in these unique artworks, photographs and lobby cards.
Sunday B. Morning Marilyn Monroe Suite is a 1980 screenprint by none other than Andy Warhol, the 20th-century master of pop art.
Orange Marilyn, Andy Warhol's iconic 1964 image of Marilyn Monroe, broke all records for the artist in 1998 when it sold at Sotheby’s for US$17.3 million (£13.4 million). It also set a new record as the highest price paid for a Warhol artwork at that time.
In 1970 Andy Warhol partnered up with a group of Belgian artists, who operated under the name ‘Sunday B Morning’, to mass produce more Marilyn screenprints with different coloured variations. Warhol’s wanted all the screenprints to represent his ideas about mass production of art. The artist decided not to go ahead with the project and left all the negatives and colour numbers with Sunday B Morning and recognised the prints as authentic reproductions in his catalogue raisonné, even signing some of them using the phrase ‘this is not me. Andy Warhol’.
Marlyn Monroe also makes an appearance in this US lobby card for The Prince and the Showgirl, a 1957 film by Laurence Olivier in which an American showgirl (Monroe) becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.
Another Marilyn Monroe lobby card, this is for the 1960 film Let’s Make Love. In this, when billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirised in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell (played by Monroe).
Moving on to another star of the screen, we find this gelatin silver print of Audrey Hepburn (together with William Holden) on the set of Paris When It Sizzles, Paris, 1962.
The print comes from the personal collection of Audrey Hepburn, which sold at Christie’s in September 2017. Hepburn is depicted in a demure but friendly pose, as one often associates her, with her hand on her chin and perched on the end of a sofa beneath a painting of horses.
Finally, we finish off this selection with a lobby card of the 1961 film A Cold Wind in August. The card features Lola Albright in an iconic, and rather scant, costume with a cape drawn over her shoulders and mask across her eyes.
The film also starred Scott Marlowe and entailed an older woman (Albright) seducing an impressionable working-class boy who falls deeply in love with her. Disillusionment sets in when the boy discovers that she is a stripper...
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